I asked Stacey to drop by to celebrate her new release. Saving Grace is her first menage and it promises to be a fantastic read! This baby is over at Siren-Bookstrand and it’s rated SEXTREME!!! Fanning myself here…pant…pant…
Blurb:
Grace is thrust deep into cattle country with dozens of sex starved cowboys. Her modest, timid nature soon fizzles away to make room for her raging lust. From one night stands to a ménage a cinq, her body won’t allow her to refuse the muscled ranch hands that seem desperate to pleasure her.
Grace explores her sexuality and pushes her personal boundaries. She discovers the sensual woman that remained dormant during her adult years. It is the love of a good man that forces her to let down her guards. Can she commit after everything she has been through in the past? Will she accept the love she’s craved for a lifetime?plores her sexuality and pushes her personal boundaries. She discovers the sensual woman that remained dormant during her adult years. It is the love of a good man that forces her to let down her guards. Can she commit after everything she has been through in the past? Will she accept the love she’s craved for a lifetime?
Links:
Stacey’s Website: http://www.staceyespino.com
Stacey’s Blog: http://www.staceyespino.blogspot.com
Buy Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/saving-grace
Sex and Love, by Stacey Espino
Throughout history, men have been prided on their sexual prowess. It was acceptable for them to have nameless encounters, with little regret. Men: the heartbreakers, and players. Women, on the other hand, have been respected for their chaste behavior, and any promiscuity has been frowned upon.
Today, times have certainly changed. You just have to look at the climbing popularity of women’s erotic romance, to know that we are more comfortable with our sexuality, and eager to explore it.
But, being the emotional creatures we are, can we love ‘em and leave ‘em, as men seem so easily capable of?
Do women tend to attach feelings, namely love, with sex?
Or is it very possible for them to have their fun, and walk away with no attachment?
I explored this topic in my recent release, Saving Grace.
Grace is forced into a wife swap by her abusive husband. But spending a month on the Wagner Ranch turns out to be the best thing that could ever happen to her. She comes out of her shell, and explores her sexuality. Though she has some affectionate feelings for the men that she fools around with on the ranch, she’s conscious of the fact that she doesn’t love them, and tells them so.
When Mr. Wagner’s own son catches her attention, separating lust and love is much more of a challenge. Read Saving Grace and learn how Grace copes with her unusual situation.
All the best, Stacey!
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Congrats on Saving Grace. I like the premise. I’ll have to do some shopping later.
Thanks for having me, Julia! You know I can’t wait to get my paws on your upcoming menage. Bwahahaha
I think women can…in some cases. Some women aren’t really made for one-night-stands; others are. It’s individual. FWIW, not all men are into casual sex either. I do know a few that were virginal until they were either married or in committed relationships.
But women have been reading erotica (not just erotic romance) for decades, at least openly. I’m sure some women read the Marquis de Sade…in secret, of course. I don’t think it’s a new development that women want to explore their sexuality. The change is in how society views them doing it.
BTW, congrats on your book. Sounds interesting!
Brenna
Congrats on the book! I would agree women have come a long way but we still attach love with sex or should I say I do.
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Congrats on the book, Stacey!
I agree with one of your previous commentors, some women can disassociate love and sex, the porn industry is a good example. But in general, I don’t think the majority of women can separate them. I think a lot of women forget to take the time to get the know themselves on all levels, not just their sexuality.
Great topic!
This sounds like a great read! Congratulations on your new release Stacey! I love menages and this looks like a HOT read!
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the support!
Stacey
I can’t wait to read this, Stacey! I just got paid today to it’s first on my list!
I think women are capable of sex just for sex. Like Brenna said, it’s an individual thing. But I do think women are more likely to confuse lust with love. I think the hormones inside of us can throw us seriously out of whack.
Happy sales, Stacey!
Reading and enjoying our fantasy romances is one thing, but I sincerely doubt that women can behave like sex addicts without experiencing guilt twinges. One of the two sexes must remain grounded in ethical treatment of relationships, or the children of the new generations will become flagrant sybarites, watching their mothers ‘flit from bee to bee to bee’. LOL!
My grown sons have strong loving ethics (along with a healthy dose of libido), and both have made good marriages last a long time. My middle son is still crazy in love with his wife, and isn’t afraid to tell her so. My oldest son still sets aside “playtime” to spend solely with his woman, and after nearly 20 years of being together, they behave like newly weds.
There is no nitch too outrageous to find in the romances we write, and women adore reading about them. But reading and doing are two different things. That’s why romance books sell more than any other book! If everyone was out there “doing” it, there would be far lower sales. Right?
I’ll tell you, a menage is an amazing fantasy - IRL I don’t share. Call me selfish!
Men need to make love to feel loved. Women need to feel loved to make love. That’s the usual and accepted norm.
But as has been pointed out, there are many individual ways to “be”, and it can change depending on your age and your stage in life. I refer to it as “ya-yas”…some people, men AND women are born with none, some with a few, and some with a WHOLE LOT. If you get your “ya-yas” out when you are young and single, no one gets hurt. It’s when you repress them because you think it will make you a “bad girl”, or any of those nasty names that men come up with to describe women who are having lots of sex…just NOT WITH THEM, that they end up biting you in the butt, because they WILL come out, and when they do, you may break up a marriage, hurt your children, etc etc. In my current series of novels, when the heroine is “ready” to fall in love, then sex becomes more than just “recreational”, and has layers of meaning that she never felt before. But my heroines are always in their thirties and beyond.
As far as women have come in socio-economic standing I don’t think we can easily separate sex and love. I think it is genetic programming we see repeated over and over in species of all kinds. Men spread seed, women bear young and need protection from beasts. It is possible I have failed to evolve from the selfish-gene theory of the 1980s.
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Stephanie - your post really caught my eye. I think men, by nature, are not necessarily monogamous - some like to spread their seed in a major way. Some come to the conclusion that monogamy is the best policy, that a relationship with one woman is in their best interest in the long run.
Evolutionarily speaking, yes, it’s been safest for a woman to hook up with a man who can protect her and provide for her and her children.
Then came the pill and the resulting sexual revolution which changed the dynamics for a while, equalizing the sexes somewhat. STDs/HIV/AIDS really knocked the wind out of us…at least it gave us pause.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of testosterone when used properly, but it is testosterone that keeps men in a state of perpetual caveman-hood.